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the world around us. And today was a Mobile City
Council meeting. And I have coverage of the Mobile City
Council meeting for you here on the Uncle Henry Show.
And if you'd like actual, real coverage from real people
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to Lambyakmobile dot com. Lamb Mobile does a great job
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job of covering a lot of these stories from the
Mobile City Council meeting. And you can also watch the
meetings from start to finish on the punishing City of
Mobile YouTube channel. And it is a punishment. It's like
a self sacrifice. When you watch a Mobile City Council meeting,
you are sacrificing your own comfort and sometimes your own
sanity by staying informed and watching the politicians bloviate on
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the City Council YouTube channel City of Mobile YouTube channel. Now,
today's meeting was a blessedly short meeting, not too much
over an hour long, thank the Lord. Even though there
was still plenty of hot air. You can tell the
politicians are running for reelection because at the end of
the meeting they have time for announcements where each council
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member can just talk endlessly about whatever pops into their head.
And today we quite a bit of talking at the
end of the meeting. So if you like politicians with
their hot air, you got that at the end of
today's council meeting. Now Lamyak and Fox ten their big takeaway.
One of their big takeaways from the meeting is that
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next week the City of Mobile is going to vote.
The council is going to vote yes or no on
spending millions of dollars to dredge the lake at Langen
Park Langa Municipal Park because not enough people have the
joy of canoeing or whatever it is at Langen Park.
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I've got the story for you from Fox ten the
investigative reporter who he looks frequently disheveled, Brendan Kirby. Here
is his report from Fox ten from moments ago about
the City of Mobile looking to spend millions of dollars
to make Langen Park's lake where you can go and
put a boat in it.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Mobil City Council considering a fifty million dollar contract to
deepen the lake at Land Park.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Yeah, it's part of a vision the city is hoping
can result in environmental improvements and greater recreational opportunities. Are
Brendan Kirby's in the studio.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
And Brendan tell us about this plan, while Cameron Lenise
the long term plan is to have a boat house
with a pier where people will be able to rent
canoes and kayaks.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
There's an event plan for next month that could serve
as something of a preview for what the city.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Is shooting for.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
Plague in Park Lake runs just six inches deep in
some spots because of runoff from Ziegler Boulevard. Mobile officials
hope to deepen that to a consistent five foot average
in the lower lake and three feet in the upper lake.
That would allow easier access for canoes and kayaks. In fact,
the area of city council member Gina Gregory says there
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are plans for a boat house where people could rent small,
non motorized vessels. There are plans for two larger pavilions
as well.
Speaker 8 (04:56):
When this is finished, Langan Park will be back as
a gem the way it should have been for many,
many years. It will be a gem in the city
of Mobile.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Now, I'm sure to interrupt the story already, but it's
I though. Now I'm not opposed to di sprucing it
up and making it nicer, but I already kind of
considered a gem.
Speaker 9 (05:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I know they've had an issue lately with some shots
fired or something like that, but still it's a nice
looking park when it's mode and I think.
Speaker 8 (05:28):
People who have grown up in Mobile and who were
swimming in the lake when they were growing up. We'll
see the park looking so much more like it was back.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
The funds from the Restore Act past following the golf
oil spill in twenty ten would pay the vast majority
of the cost. Jennifer Green, the city's director of Programs
and Project Management, says the contract includes using some of
the sediment from the dredging to create a new drainage
system to better handle stormwater around.
Speaker 10 (05:56):
There's also ecological features that are impacted obviously by the sedimentation,
So you're going to have a huge improvement of ecological
services in the lake for animals, other plants and things
like that, to have a more nice habitat for them
to live in.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
Mobile resident Brad Crabtree, who is at the park Tuesday,
says he prefers his electric bike. That says he thinks
that the boat house is a good idea.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I'm not a big boat guy, but I see that.
I think that's pretty nice. So they have that out here.
There's one. So there's a note for you if you
ever want to be on TV and they're talking there's
there's some development with lying in park, Like next week
they're going to be voting on this. You may, if
you want to be on TV, go to the park
in the afternoon. Maybe somebody will show up and ask
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you what you think. You don't have to be an expert,
you just have to be there.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
A key part of the project relocating an alligator that
has lived in the lake for quite some time.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
He's big.
Speaker 8 (06:53):
There are plenty of places for an alligator in the Delta,
I think, I mean, I can visualize him over, you know,
looking at people who are having lunch and dinner at Felixes.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Right now, right, So there's an alligator that needs to
be relocated, and Gina Gregory is envisioning a nice life
for the alligator. She envisions him watching people eating at Felix's.
You know, that's where we are now, modern times. You know,
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back in the day, back when people were in that
lake swimming, and years ago, people will have envisioned belts
and they would have envisioned alligator boots and belts and
things like that. Now we're wondering is the alligator going
to have a good time? Wherever we put the alligator?
Will it have fun? Will it be able to watch
people and drool over. Maybe the alligator will be imagining
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eating us when it's out there near Felix's.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
The council is set to vote on the contract next week.
The drudging is slated to begin sometime in August and
is expected to take about eighteen months. The boat house
and pavilions would come after that. Meanwhile, Councilwoman Gregory is
encouraging people to come out to paddle in the park
on June seventh for a taste of how.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
The park could be.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
Reporting live in the news center, Brendan Kirby, Fox ten News.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Okay, so put that on the calendar, Gene seventh, paddle
in the park. And as you heard him say early
in the report, what did he say was like six
inches deep? And I don't know how much paddling you
do there, but we'll find out. We'll find out how
much paddling can happen with six inches of water. Anyway,
That is your update on Langen. Now, there is more
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to come from the Mobile City Council meeting. I will
get to it as the Uncle and other junk. As
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After the break, we're going to take a time out
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more Uncle Henry's Show. Uncle Henry's Show. It is five
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point twenty news headlines coming up in ten minutes. Mobile
City Council meeting was today. In the last segment of
the show, I shared with you the story from Fox
ten about the Langen Park. Now. The city is looking
to spend fifteen million to dredge the lake so that
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you can take your family down there in canoe and kayak.
Just more recreational opportunities. Recreational opportunities more important than the
actual filling of potholes and things like that in the
City of Mobile Now. Also in the story, it was
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pointed out that there's a big gator in the lake
that Gina Gregory, Mobile City councilman, was speculating on the
removal of the alligator and taking the alligator to the
She was imagining a happy life for the alligator after
it leaves the lake. She was imagining it enjoying the
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delta and just watching the people at Felix's. That must
be her favorite place on the causeway rather than Blue
Gill or Oyster House or all those other places. But
Stephen Brillan was watching on Facebook and mentioned, what about
the beaver advocates? You remember when they were moving beavers,
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we had a beaver advocate show up and tell us
that beaver's That public sentiment was with beaver's.
Speaker 11 (10:45):
Beaver's have just as much right to exist and to
live here in their natural habitat as we do.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Public sentiment is with the beaver.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Public centiment was with the beavers. Any is there going
to be an alligator advocate that shows up and says
that alligators have the same rights to be here in
their habitat in Langen Lake as do people. Now, I
don't know if public sentiment was the gators. Maybe it is,
You know, there isn't there is no tourist attraction called
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beaver Alley along the Gulf coast. Now there's a gator.
Isn't that what they called over there in Daphne, the
gator Alley where tourists stop and walk out into the
heat trying to see if they can look at a gator.
I don't know where is there going to be an
alligator advocate and you know, beaver's public sentiment with the beavers.
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Beavers are have rights. But when they're removed, they are
they are euthanized, they are killed. But the gator is
going to get to uh go to a bigger It's
gonna it's gonna get an upgrade. It leaves Langham Park
and now it's going to be on the Delta and
has all of that full life ahead of it. Anyway,
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these are the things you wonder when you watch government
at work. You just wonder these things. Well, let's see,
there's there's more from today's Mobile City Council to get to.
But people are now calling in, I'm sure with wisdom
to share. Two five one four seven nine two seventy
two three. The telephone number that's two five to one,
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four seven nine two seventy two three.
Speaker 12 (12:25):
Hello color, Hey, Uncle Henry, how you doing, Snake trapper?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Snake trepper? What has been going on with you?
Speaker 13 (12:32):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (12:32):
Augle Henry just coming off vacation, man from Las Vegas.
Had a blast out there, Uncle Henry. But man, what
I call tell you about Uncle Henry? Them re locating
that gator to the mobile Delta. It's probably one of
the last things they should do with that gator for
two reasons. One, the mobile Delta is already overrun with
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the alligators. Has too many out there now right, it's
because they've been protecting them for the last fifty years.
And uh two uh for one, that gater that size,
over Henry, it needs to be eaten. Now. I'll come
out there and get that gator free of charge. If
they will let me have the gator. Uh. I would
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paddle out there and hook him and then put a
bullet in the top of his head. Over Henry. Uh
that that's that gator is too big to uh to
to relocate.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
You know, that would be wouldn't it be wonderful for
you to go get that gator and then have some
type of gator harvest party for the listeners of the
Uncle Henry Show where maybe we could taste gator and
and learn about the the different utilizations of gators. Wouldn't
that be wonderful.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Over Henry.
Speaker 12 (13:42):
If you had a big enough smoker, you could smoke
that thing in ling them part and and but you know,
just anybody that want to come out and sample it,
because it would be plenty d A lot of people
think you just eat the alligator tail, but man, that
whole thing is edible. Uh. Some of the best meat
is up around the neck and the jaws of an alligator. Okay, yes,
sir man, me and doctor Brown would go out there
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in a little canoe or a kayak and hook him
and pull him upside you know, up well you can
get a shot on, just like Troy Landry does you know.
I've gator hundred before, hadn't done it a lot, but
I mean there's a way to do it. But you
definitely wouldn't want to relocate that, okaymer for one, that
would kill the smaller gators in their very territorial Yeah,
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it'll try to kill any gat smaller than it. But yeah,
man over here also too. In my trip out in
Las Vegas, Uh, the kids wanted us to go to
what's called the Stratosphere, which is one of the I
think it's the third largest standing free standing structure in
the country. Yeah, it's It's about twelve hundred feet high
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and it's a restaurant up at the top of it,
and it kind of spins while you're setting up in it.
But man over, Henry, you can take me out of preacher,
but you can't take the preacher out of me. For one,
it was a it was a dress code there. I
was never on the suit one one one time in
my life, and that was the day I got married,
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and that's been a long time ago. And uh, you know,
it was very expensive over Henry. For six people. We
dropped right at a thousand bucks in that place.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (15:17):
And when we sat down, you know, you had a
little drink that come with the meal, Uncle Henry. And
like I said it, man, I just ain't used to fencing.
I said, that just ain't me. Uh. But the waiter
come over and with a bottle of wine. And we
had a wine glass sitting there about side of a
fish bowl, and uh he just basically just tilted the
bottle in there and just put it wasn't much at
all over Hendrey. And I didn't know. I just looked
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at him, you know, and told him, hey, man, if
you low on wine, I'll just have a beer. And
it kind of embarrassed the family over Henry. I raised
my kids never h you know, don't don't do anything
that would embarrass the family. But you know, I embarrassed
the family over Henry. But it was definitely not intentional.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Well, you embarrassed the family, but put it in perspective
and embarrassed them in a city that is known as
Sin City, one of the most sinful places on the planet.
So I mean, if you're going to embarrass somebody, embarrass
them there.
Speaker 12 (16:11):
Oh man, we had a blast out there, ok, Henry.
We kind of glad to get back home where I
could rest.
Speaker 13 (16:16):
Man.
Speaker 12 (16:17):
We did a lot of stuff out there. We kayaked
down the Colorado River, went to the Hoover Dawn. Man,
just blast. I would encourage everybody. You can go out
there and have a good time, and you don't have
to gamble. It's just so much to do out there.
Went to Game five of the Golden Knights hockey game. Unfortunately,
we had to catch a plane that night and the
game went into overtime, so we had to leave. Didn't
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get to see the end of the game. We knew
it'd be there long enough for the game, but when
it went in overtime on the way back to the airport,
we found out that the Golden Knights I did lose
Game five to get kicked out of the NHL playoffs.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Oh okay, but man, I.
Speaker 12 (16:56):
Posted some pictures on Facebook on co Henry, we like
I said, we had a blast, but yeah, I'd love
to go capture that gator for him. Uncle here and
even now put it on a rot history and run
ride through it and or smoking right out there and
invite the public to come out and enjoy it. But
I would just encourage him against relocating Sat.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Trevor, thank you. That was an outstanding call to the
Uncle Henry show.
Speaker 12 (17:17):
Yes, sir buddy, and you take care.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
You too, Thank you for that. You know this, it'd
be nice. You know, there's a mayoral form going on
tonight at dauphin Way United Methodist Church. That'd be a
good question for all the candidates for mayor. Would you
support roasting the Langen Park gator on a spit at
Langen Park for the benefit of the citizenry. That helped
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me figure out who to vote for. Uncle Henry showed,
Who's radio seven to ten WNTIM It's five thirty five.
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I have more from the Mobile City Council meeting today
to share with you, but first I've got a caller
that's been waiting. The caller has been waiting since Snake
Trapper started talking. Hello caller, Hey help for Hendry Navcobil
Navco Bill. Thank you so much for your patience. You
are live on the radio, Nafco, Bill.
Speaker 9 (18:28):
Sure, no problem. Yeah, I was just you know, me
and Snake Driver must have had the same kind of thought,
because I said, I can find room for that gator
on my green egg. You know, we'll cook him up,
we'll have a party. And then I thought, well, I
shouldn't be greedy. If the folks that Felis fish Felix
fishcamp could cook him up and serve him to more people,
you know, in a real fancy way, that'd be.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Good too, It would be.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Anyway.
Speaker 9 (18:55):
Gosh, it's amazing how culture's changed and whatnot.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Isn't it. It is the older you get, the more
you notice it.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
By the way, oh yeah, so I'm almost at that
magical age of fifty nine and a half.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Oh okay, all right, well there's still life after that,
but you're yes, what once you go past that, you
begin to notice every day how how different things are,
how how how the culture views things completely differently than
they used to.
Speaker 9 (19:32):
Yeah, okay, well, y'all have a good day and I'll
enjoy the rest of the show.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Hey, thank you Navko Bill. I appreciate very much you
calling in with your thoughts on your green egg. Let's
see So today Mobile City Council meeting, I mentioned to
you about the Langen Park dredging. Here's a few other
things from the meeting that you might either benefit from
knowing or enjoy hearing. Now, the Mayor, Standy Simpson, announced
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that there's going to be the ground breaking for the
new arena. I know you the the citizen of Mobile
are very excited about your tax dollars going to this
brand new replacement for the Civic Center, the new arena
that's supposed to make everything just better, just everything will
be better. Here is they're going to have the groundbreaking tomorrow.
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Here is the mayor talking about the ground breaking for
the new arena.
Speaker 13 (20:31):
Tomorrow is a big day in the city Mobile that
we will have the groundbreaking for the new arena. It's
at nine am on site. If you go around venis
Lafe Lafayette Street, come from that side, then you'll be
able to see the tent will be have comments being
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made by OBG, which is.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
The ovg's Oak View Group.
Speaker 14 (20:57):
They'll be doing the programming for the arena as well
as the now for the signer and for the Civic Center,
as well as other community projects.
Speaker 13 (21:09):
So if you stop and think about what's happened to
Mobile over the last probably thirty years. The biggest projects.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Right now, the mayor is going to list big projects
from the past, and it occurred to me he mentioned
a few that big projects that I remember vividly, the
public being against them, are not being satisfied with them.
Let's see, what does he mention that.
Speaker 13 (21:34):
Have been undertaken? Would be Government Plaza.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Government Plaza. Do you remember there were the reaction to
Government Plaza. I could not find anyone at the time
of the opening of Government Plaza that liked the way
it looked, the design I did not. I couldn't find
anybody that liked the way it looked, the design of it.
And as you may recall, it was flowed from the
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very beginning. Government Plaza was leaking before they even opened
it up to the public, and we went through years
of the taxpayer having to fix and plug all these
different leagues until I think they got to the bottom
of it a few years ago. Uh, I don't know
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when when bringing up new projects, don't bring up the
old bad projects.
Speaker 13 (22:26):
The civic center, the convention center.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Now, of course, then he mentions the convention center next.
Do you remember that one of the reasons that Mike
Dale became mayor of Mobile is that there was the
announced plan to build a convention center and the citizens
did not want to build a convention center, and Mike
dal ran against building a convention center against Arthur Outlaw
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who was in favor of building a convention center. And
Mike Dow won the election in art because he ran
on an anti convention center platform.
Speaker 13 (23:05):
And the RSA Tower now.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
RSA Tower didn't have as much opposition except from some
people at the time that were upset that there was
a lot of vacant, unleashed commercial office space in Mobile
and they didn't they didn't want the competition.
Speaker 13 (23:25):
RSA Tower was a by RSA. There was some city
involvement in that. These convention centers obviously a city project.
This building was a county project. But the new Arena
is the largest project that's been undertaken in the last
twelve years, and so a lot went into that. So
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we're really excited to have the groundbreaking bar and getting
it underway so that it can be completed for a
mighty gro in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Okay, so in the future, city officials in the future,
please never mention the convention center or government plaza or
anything like that in connection with the new arena, because
you don't want to be connected to those things. Many
people still consider a lot of them boondoggles. I'm just
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glad he didn't mention the golf quest when he was
talking about all this. So the groundbreaking tomorrow for the
new arena. The mayor also brought up the situation with
South MacGregor Avenue, which you may have forgotten that people
used to use that road because it's been closed for
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so long. Here is an update on the MacGregor Avenue,
the rebuilding of that street and also the construction of
a traffic circle at Dauphin and McGregor.
Speaker 13 (24:54):
One of the major infrastructure projects we've been working on.
This really disruptive, kind of like Zigler Boulevard being disruptive,
and it's the South McGregor Avenue project. But it's a
complete street rebuild from new lighting, traffic signals, curves, gutters,
pedestrian features, all the utilities under the street have been
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completely redone. But it's the street will by the time
we finish, will have been shut down almost two years,
so we're getting into the last phases of it. So
on May twenty eighth, the intersection at the McGregor and
Dolphin Street, there will be a roundabout that will go there,
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but May that intersection will be shut down until New
Year's Eve.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Okay, so now that'll be that'll be a big deal
for a lot of people, shutting down that intersection for
what May twenty eighth until he says New Year's Eve.
Speaker 13 (25:55):
So just please, if you drive in that area, be
planning you what your new route is going to be,
other than coming down on Dauphin Street traveling. McGregor councilor
Dave's done a magnificent job along with City Engineering Department
of outreaching to try to explain this to everybody. But
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as you know, not everybody may be paying attention. So
there'll be some congestion right at the beginning, and really
when school starts next late August, there will be a
lot of opportunities for traffic control to see how we
can perform.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Okay. I love seeing I love infrastructure. I love new infrastructure.
I like repairing old infrastructure. I like it. I like
infrastructure I do. I don't understand, though I have an
ignorance in my life on why these projects take so long.
Speaker 13 (26:54):
Now.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
I know it was a major undertaking, as he just
explained part of it, but it's still taking that many
years to complete. I would love to have do a
show where I get some roadbuilders in here just to
explain how roads are built nowadays and why they seem
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to take so long and cost so much. There's a
more show to come, Uncle Henry Show. Moving forward, I'm
going to take a time out for trafficing, weather and
words form magnificent sponsors, and then back with more Uncle
Henry's Show on News Radio seven to ten WNTM.
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Speaker 4 (27:58):
It's five point fifty news headlines coming up in ten minutes.
Before I get to the news headlines, I have a
few callers waiting to talk. Two five one four seven
nine seven two three the telephone number. Hello, collor Ule
Henry LD the Mad Trucker.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Look, uh, you know I'm.
Speaker 12 (28:22):
Retired now so I can watch you on Facebook.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Yes, yes, and you know, just looking.
Speaker 9 (28:27):
At you, Uncle Henry, you look a little heavier, you
getting heavy?
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Well, no, I'm I'm about the same as I've been
for the last couple of years.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Well, I'll tell you what it looks to me. Now,
I haven't seen you in a while, but it looks
to me like you're starting to pack on some pounds.
Speaker 13 (28:42):
I'm really wondering if.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
I'm wearing by the way, before before you uh, before
you launch whatever your your attack is on my person.
I'm I'm in a thirty four waistline.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Thirty four, Yeah, but there's it looks like you got
a muffin top hanging off the off the edge.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
You can't see my waist, you can't see my waste
on the camera.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Well, you need you? Is your new wife trying to
do what you did to your mother by making her gay?
Like six hundred pounds stuff that?
Speaker 4 (29:09):
That's all right? This is disgusting.
Speaker 9 (29:11):
Stop it.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
You know you retiring should be the beginning of a new,
wonderful life for you. But instead, now what are you
gonna do? Sit at home and double your attacks on
my family? Listeners Again, I asked you yesterday. Pray for him.
He needs it, Lord, he needs it. I know he's
got he's got a mostly good mind. Well I don't know,
I don't know what the percentage is, but there's some
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good in there. Pray for him that the good in
his mind blossoms and he can spend his retirement year
years in service to others in some former fashion instead
of attacking people like me and my family. Now, yeah,
I'd like to lose a few pounds, but I'm in
a thirty four waist. I'm not. Yeah, I'm and my
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wife no, she's u She's not trying to fatten me
up or anything like that. But this, you know, I
guess I'd rather you attack me than my family. So
the next time you call in, feel free to attack me.
Just leave my family out of it, all right? Two five,
one four seven nine two three The telephone number, Hello.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Color, Hello Grahanner is the Alabama.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Bush Alabama bush hog? What is on your mind?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Well, a lot of things over here. For one thing,
I wear a size thirty four to two, and my
wife thinks some safety.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
All right, Well, I guess I guess congratulations. Because you
are married, I think that is allowed for your wife
to think that. We ordinarily wouldn't say these things in
public if we had decorum, But congratulations to you.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Well, thank you. She's my number one fan. That's that's sir.
But look I want her to touch base on well,
the the grilled cheese and Wendy's burger. You just sign
me up, all right.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Now you're talking about something that the Alabama bushog is
talking about, something that you, the radio listener, has no
idea what he is talking about, because he must be
watching on Facebook. And so to let you, the radio listener,
know what he is referring to. I saw a news
item that the Wendy's in Canada they've rolled out a
(31:23):
new a new grilled cheeseburger. It's a grilled cheese cheeseburger
in Canada. That is a quarter pound beef patty and
the bun is two grilled cheese sandwiches. So you have
(31:43):
a grilled cheese sandwich on top of it, and a
grilled cheese sandwich has the bottom bun. Now, what did
you want to say about that, bushog?
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Well, I give you him that for days, Uncle Henry.
What I really wanted to call and talk to you
about is the conventions.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Now, wait a minute, you just brought up this sandwich
that I had not talked about on the radio. Now
I've explained that. What were you going to say about it?
Speaker 13 (32:09):
That?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Like you eat on a quarter bound burger like that
for days? I mean for two days at least.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Oh okay, well that makes more sense that it would
take you several days.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
I'm trying to keep you thirty four inch waist. Okay,
you know I had to pace myself. But other than that,
the Convinsion Center back in the day, Judge Lambert Mimes
and Judge Offer Outlaw, between the two really corrupted all
the concerts coming to the convention center in Mobile back
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in the day.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Now, they were not judges, no no.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
No, no no, but they did. They did some sleazy
backroom deals get some airs of money up there.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Now, I don't know that Arthur Outlaw was connected to
any of that. This would be news to me. And
I don't believe Lambert Memes was ever accused of being
connected to that. He was accused of being connected to
other things and got on trial for other things, but
I don't believe that he was ever connected to that.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Well, the thing is that when that happened, at the time,
Leonard Skinner said, we'll never come back to Mobile, and
all the other bands never would come back. We were blackballed.
You had to either go to Pensacola or Bulasi to
see a concert, and that was a rough time. Because
you had to travel instead of having them right here
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in town. The only concerts we have right now are
at the Pair Grounds, and he got a way till
the Pair opens for that.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Usually I don't well, that's not actually, there's lots and
lots of concerts at the Sanger Bush Hall. I don't know.
I don't know what to say. I mean, you were
calling these former mayors and commissioners, judges and all this.
Maybe you need to reorient yourself and try again. But
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God bless you. Thank you for calling it, says the
(34:31):
Uncle Henry Show here on news Radio seventy ten WNTM.
Thank you again for listening to the Uncle Henry Show.
I appreciate it very very much. Now, in this half
hour of show, I'm gonna get to a few news items,
maybe a voicemail now, as you are probably aware, the
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City of Mobile having a municipal election in August, a
few months from now, where Mobile sit lions will elect
a new mayor and they will vote for who they
want to represent them in the Mobile City Council. And
there is a mayoral forum going on right now. So
if you are out at a bount and you'd like
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to learn about the people running for mayor, you could
direct your vehicle over to daulphin Way United Methodist Church
on Dauphin Street. That's dauphin Way United Methodist Church. They're
having a mayoral forum going on until eight o'clock tonight.
It started at six o'clock just a few minutes ago.
So seven candidates, seven mayoral candidates are there and this
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forum being put on by Mobile Historic Districts, the Government
Street Collective and the Mobile Historical Development Commission. So if
you want to go, ask questions or just listen, that
going on until eight o'clock tonight at Dolphin United Methodist Church. Now,
public safety very hot topic in the election. Public safety.
(36:02):
Even though mobilions are told consistently, we mobilions are told
consistently that crime is down, that all the stats are
pointing in the right direction. The stats are going down
on crime except for I think. The police department had
a press release today about vehicle thefts and vehicle break
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ins are going up temporarily, they think. They said that
at least six vehicle thefts in the last week and
four vehicle burglaries. So lock your cars, lock your vehicles,
don't go to the don't go to a store and
then jump out of your vehicle and leave it running
unlocked when you go in there. Because that's act that's happened.
(36:49):
People just leave their vehicle runnings. Somebody comes along and
can't resist the opportunity. But anyway, other stats are down,
other crime stats are down, but public safety is a
hot but an issue. It reminds me very much of
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the last few years in the Sam Jones administration, where
it was very similar. We were told repeatedly by officials
that crime stats were going down. We've never had it
so good in terms of crime status, but at the
same time, public safety was an issue. I believe the
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former mayor Sam Jones called it a perception of crime.
He was claiming we didn't have a lot of crime,
but we had a perception of crime. And I think
the way he explained it once to the media was
that a lot of crime used to be concentrated in
certain areas and we had the same amount of crime
or less crime, but it had spread out more and
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that more people were noticing it back then. I don't
know if you remember any of this, but I do
because I was forced to talk about that kind of garbage.
Well Anyway, Well, here we are once again we're being
told crime stats are down. But at the same time,
people are worried about crime. People are worried about going
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out and about and do they need to worry in
the middle of an afternoon that they might get shot
or robbed in a grocery store parking lot. Now there
was a story this. I saw this story in land
Yap a few days ago, lamiacmobile dot Com the website.
I saw this story about a man in Midtown Mobile
(38:40):
minding his own business out in his yard and ends
up getting shot. He was just out in his yard,
mountain of his own business. I've got the story for you.
Fox ten covered it last night. Here is the story
about the man in Midtown Mobile. This neighborhood right off
of imageen Street eight.
Speaker 6 (39:01):
Raw emotion from a neighbor in Midtown Mobile after an
innocent man was shot. Last week, a.
Speaker 5 (39:08):
Stray bullet hit Matthew Delaney in his face as he
was talking on the phone in his front yard. And
tonight some neighbors are speaking up about the random gunfire
in that area.
Speaker 6 (39:17):
Our Natalie Williamson live at MPD headquarters with the late reporting. Natalie, First,
how is Delaney.
Speaker 16 (39:26):
Bulnis and Cameron. Delaney's family says he is in good spirits.
The bullet went through his face, down to his shoulder
and exited out of his back tonight. While Delane remains
in the hospital waiting on emergency surgery, Mobile police are
still searching for the person or persons responsible for the
senseless act of violence.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
Review twenty three engine twenty three gun job at twenty
seven hundred fourmans a Gold That was.
Speaker 16 (39:56):
The first emergency call made Thursday night around eight thirty
after an innocent mobile man was shot outside his home
on Foreman Circle. The victim's family has identified him as
Matthew Delaney. According to a close friend of Delaney, he
was outside his home on Foreman Circle talking to someone
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on the phone when a stray bullet hit him in
the face. His family says the bullet went through his face,
down his shoulder and exited out of his back tonight.
While Delaney remains in the hospital, his close friend, Bradley
Thompson says being on the phone may have saved his life.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
Matthew had so much a drilline going, it just showed
a ton of courage When a time grabbed his keys,
got in the car. And then our other friend went
and met him, put him in his car, and you
know came God bar good friend too that you know,
came to the rescue and he saved his life.
Speaker 16 (40:52):
A neighbor that didn't want to go on camera tells
me in the past two weeks, nearly a dozen shots
have been fired in the area.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
Now, I'm sorry to pause the story, but again, when
stuff like this is going on, standing up in front
of the public and ten on us the crime stats
are down. It may may be completely true, may be factual.
You ain't helping anything standing up and ten on us, Hey,
stants are down. You heard it. You're hearing these people
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say that they're here. They're hearing gunshots in their neighborhood
all the time, and this poor guy lucky to be alive.
Speaker 16 (41:29):
She also told me she found shell casings right here
on this road. That was last Monday, and a few
days later a bullet hit Matthew Delaney in the face.
Another neighbor also tells me SHOT's have been fired in
this area four different times in just the past month.
Speaker 4 (41:46):
The first weekend it was at one end of the park,
shooting down to the length of the park. And then
the next night it was at the other end, shooting
down back towards the other end.
Speaker 6 (41:54):
He says.
Speaker 16 (41:55):
Since the gunfire, he's seen posts on social media threatening
people in this area. Now he and other residents are
begging for more police, presidents, cameras, and street lights so
they can capture the shooters.
Speaker 4 (42:09):
Oh, and I'm sorry for interrupting again. This park. I've
driven past this park several times living in Midtown myself
and I and I noticed I haven't seen a lot
of people using it, And now maybe I know why.
I don't even know what to say. I'm terrified.
Speaker 16 (42:31):
The neighbor says. Some of the gunshots happened in broad
daylight while a school bus was in the area. That's
for Delaney. He's got a long road to recovery. His
family's created a GoFundMe and we have that link on
our website Live at MPD headquarters. Natalie Williamson, Foxten News.
Speaker 4 (42:48):
Well, I don't know this is Is this the kind
of thing that shows up in crime stats? Again? It
doesn't help getting up and telling all of us, hey smile,
the crime stats are down. It doesn't help when this
kind of stuff happens all right back with more show.
After the break, it says the Uncle Henry Show on
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news Radio seventy WNTM, we have new suidlines coming your
way in ten minutes before we get to the new
said lines. In the last segment of the show, disturbing
story out of Mobile, it was a crime story. I
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was pointing out that mobilions these days certainly have crime
on their mind, a perception of crime, even though we're
being told about all how all the crime stats are down.
It may let me want to hear something reassuring, So
I hope you'll indulge me just a moment. I just
like to live Whenever I want to be reassured, I
(44:09):
like to listen to Reagan. If you don't mind just
a little bit of Ronald Reagan, let me let me
go into my Uncle Henry's show archives for a little
Ronald Reagan on crime.
Speaker 11 (44:21):
Of all the changes in the past twenty years, none
has more threatened our sense of national well being than
the explosion of violent crime. One does not have to
be attacked to be a victim.
Speaker 4 (44:33):
Amen.
Speaker 11 (44:34):
The woman who was run to her car after shopping
at night is a victim.
Speaker 4 (44:38):
See this, This is what I was talking about this
that doesn't show up in crime stats. But when when
somebody is shot at a grocery store parking lot at
three point thirty on a Sunday afternoon, everybody that goes
to that grocery store now has this preoccupying them. It
is a form of being a victim of.
Speaker 11 (44:58):
Crime, draping their door with locks and chains, or victims,
as is the tired, decent cleaning woman who can't ride
a subway home without being afraid. We do not seek
to violate the rights of de defendants, but shouldn't we
feel more compassion for the victims of crime than for
those who commit crime. For the first time in twenty years,
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the crime index has fallen two years in a row.
Speaker 4 (45:37):
But we must do more.
Speaker 11 (45:39):
I urge the House to follow the Senate and enact
proposals permitting use of all reliable evidence that police officers
acquire in good faith. These proposals would also reform the
habeas corpus laws and allow, in keeping with the will
of the overwhelming majority of Americans, the use of the
death penalty where necessary.
Speaker 4 (46:06):
Now and now, yes, I need a little bit more,
if you don't mind just a little bit more. Reagan
on the topic of guns, because this horrible story out
of Midtown where the main has been severely injured by
being shot just minding his own business in his front
yard and suddenly ends up shot from who knows who
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on the topic of guns.
Speaker 17 (46:32):
But I believe we share the same goal a strong
America carrying the banner of freedom and secure from threats
to her domestic tranquility, economic well being, and national security.
No group does more to promote gun safety and respect
for the laws of this land. And the NRA and
(46:53):
I thank you. Still we both heard the charge that's
supporting gun owners' rights in Courage is a violent shoot
them up society. But just a minute, don't they understand
that most violent crimes are not committed by decent, law
abiding citizens. They're committed by career criminals. Guns don't make criminals.
(47:17):
Hardcore criminals use guns and locking them up, the hardcore
criminals up and throwing away the keys. The best gun
control law we could ever have. Yeah, a little bit more, please,
But there's one thing we do not want. We will
never disarm any American who seeks to protect his fit
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or her family from fear and harm. You don't have
to interject something I hadn't planned to say here, but
having mentioned being the governor of California during a time
when they were talking gun control there in our state,
(48:03):
I received a letter, a most unusual letter from a
convicted burglar serving time in San Quentin prison, and he
wrote and told me that he just thought, from his
vantage point where he was, he'd like to tell me
how happy it would make all of them if we
would adopt gun control. And then he explained the inside
(48:23):
of his profession. He said, we can case a place home,
we can watch and learn the habits of the people
that live there when they're in and out, and all
of that. But he said, the one thing that always
sticks in our mind that we can never answer is
is that one of those homes where the fella has
a gun in a drawer by the bed. And he said,
that's the one that scares us most of all. So
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he said, there'd be a lot of smiles in this
place if you would adopt gun control. Oh, I.
Speaker 4 (48:55):
All right, yes, Look, I just need a little bit.
It's every now and again, I'm going to need a
bit of Reagan. It's reassuring. It's like comfort food, maybe
to you it's maybe you eat macaroni and cheese or
mashed potatoes and gravy. I like to have a little
Reagan every now and again. All right, out of time
for this Hilf hour of Uncle Henry's Show. Appreciate very
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they say in at least one convenience store in Midtown,
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weird people talking, and I like it. I like that
I'm one of them. Here we are together again, me
and you trying to figure out what's going on in
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the world around us. And today was a Mobile City
Council meeting. And I have coverage of the Mobile City
Council meeting for you here on the Uncle Henry Show.
And if you'd like actual, real coverage from real people
that are real reporters and things like that, I'd go
to Lambyakmobile dot com. Lamb Mobile does a great job
covering city council meetings. Also, Fox ten does a great
(02:05):
job of covering a lot of these stories from the
Mobile City Council meeting. And you can also watch the
meetings from start to finish on the punishing City of
Mobile YouTube channel. And it is a punishment. It's like
a self sacrifice. When you watch a Mobile City Council meeting,
you are sacrificing your own comfort and sometimes your own
sanity by staying informed and watching the politicians bloviate on
(02:32):
the City Council YouTube channel City of Mobile YouTube channel. Now,
today's meeting was a blessedly short meeting, not too much
over an hour long, thank the Lord. Even though there
was still plenty of hot air. You can tell the
politicians are running for reelection because at the end of
the meeting they have time for announcements where each council
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member can just talk endlessly about whatever pops into their head.
And today we quite a bit of talking at the
end of the meeting. So if you like politicians with
their hot air, you got that at the end of
today's council meeting. Now Lamyak and Fox ten their big takeaway.
One of their big takeaways from the meeting is that
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next week the City of Mobile is going to vote.
The council is going to vote yes or no on
spending millions of dollars to dredge the lake at Langen
Park Langa Municipal Park because not enough people have the
joy of canoeing or whatever it is at Langen Park.
(03:37):
I've got the story for you from Fox ten the
investigative reporter who he looks frequently disheveled, Brendan Kirby. Here
is his report from Fox ten from moments ago about
the City of Mobile looking to spend millions of dollars
to make Langen Park's lake where you can go and
put a boat in it.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Mobil City Council considering a fifty million dollar contract to
deepen the lake at Land Park.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Yeah, it's part of a vision the city is hoping
can result in environmental improvements and greater recreational opportunities. Are
Brendan Kirby's in the studio.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
And Brendan tell us about this plan, while Cameron Lenise
the long term plan is to have a boat house
with a pier where people will be able to rent
canoes and kayaks.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
There's an event plan for next month that could serve
as something of a preview for what the city.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Is shooting for.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
Plague in Park Lake runs just six inches deep in
some spots because of runoff from Ziegler Boulevard. Mobile officials
hope to deepen that to a consistent five foot average
in the lower lake and three feet in the upper lake.
That would allow easier access for canoes and kayaks. In fact,
the area of city council member Gina Gregory says there
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are plans for a boat house where people could rent small,
non motorized vessels. There are plans for two larger pavilions
as well.
Speaker 8 (04:56):
When this is finished, Langan Park will be back as
a gem the way it should have been for many,
many years. It will be a gem in the city
of Mobile.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Now, I'm sure to interrupt the story already, but it's
I though. Now I'm not opposed to di sprucing it
up and making it nicer, but I already kind of
considered a gem.
Speaker 9 (05:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I know they've had an issue lately with some shots
fired or something like that, but still it's a nice
looking park when it's mode and I think.
Speaker 8 (05:28):
People who have grown up in Mobile and who were
swimming in the lake when they were growing up. We'll
see the park looking so much more like it was back.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
The funds from the Restore Act past following the golf
oil spill in twenty ten would pay the vast majority
of the cost. Jennifer Green, the city's director of Programs
and Project Management, says the contract includes using some of
the sediment from the dredging to create a new drainage
system to better handle stormwater around.
Speaker 10 (05:56):
There's also ecological features that are impacted obviously by the sedimentation,
So you're going to have a huge improvement of ecological
services in the lake for animals, other plants and things
like that, to have a more nice habitat for them
to live in.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
Mobile resident Brad Crabtree, who is at the park Tuesday,
says he prefers his electric bike. That says he thinks
that the boat house is a good idea.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I'm not a big boat guy, but I see that.
I think that's pretty nice. So they have that out here.
There's one. So there's a note for you if you
ever want to be on TV and they're talking there's
there's some development with lying in park, Like next week
they're going to be voting on this. You may, if
you want to be on TV, go to the park
in the afternoon. Maybe somebody will show up and ask
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you what you think. You don't have to be an expert,
you just have to be there.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
A key part of the project relocating an alligator that
has lived in the lake for quite some time.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
He's big.
Speaker 8 (06:53):
There are plenty of places for an alligator in the Delta,
I think, I mean, I can visualize him over, you know,
looking at people who are having lunch and dinner at Felixes.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Right now, right, So there's an alligator that needs to
be relocated, and Gina Gregory is envisioning a nice life
for the alligator. She envisions him watching people eating at Felix's.
You know, that's where we are now, modern times. You know,
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back in the day, back when people were in that
lake swimming, and years ago, people will have envisioned belts
and they would have envisioned alligator boots and belts and
things like that. Now we're wondering is the alligator going
to have a good time? Wherever we put the alligator?
Will it have fun? Will it be able to watch
people and drool over. Maybe the alligator will be imagining
(07:46):
eating us when it's out there near Felix's.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
The council is set to vote on the contract next week.
The drudging is slated to begin sometime in August and
is expected to take about eighteen months. The boat house
and pavilions would come after that. Meanwhile, Councilwoman Gregory is
encouraging people to come out to paddle in the park
on June seventh for a taste of how.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
The park could be.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
Reporting live in the news center, Brendan Kirby, Fox ten News.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Okay, so put that on the calendar, Gene seventh, paddle
in the park. And as you heard him say early
in the report, what did he say was like six
inches deep? And I don't know how much paddling you
do there, but we'll find out. We'll find out how
much paddling can happen with six inches of water. Anyway,
That is your update on Langen. Now, there is more
(08:35):
to come from the Mobile City Council meeting. I will
get to it as the Uncle and other junk. As
the Uncle Henry Show proceeds forward in the time stream.
After the break, we're going to take a time out
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point twenty news headlines coming up in ten minutes. Mobile
City Council meeting was today. In the last segment of
the show, I shared with you the story from Fox
ten about the Langen Park. Now. The city is looking
to spend fifteen million to dredge the lake so that
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you can take your family down there in canoe and kayak.
Just more recreational opportunities. Recreational opportunities more important than the
actual filling of potholes and things like that in the
City of Mobile Now. Also in the story, it was
(09:57):
pointed out that there's a big gator in the lake
that Gina Gregory, Mobile City councilman, was speculating on the
removal of the alligator and taking the alligator to the
She was imagining a happy life for the alligator after
it leaves the lake. She was imagining it enjoying the
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delta and just watching the people at Felix's. That must
be her favorite place on the causeway rather than Blue
Gill or Oyster House or all those other places. But
Stephen Brillan was watching on Facebook and mentioned, what about
the beaver advocates? You remember when they were moving beavers,
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we had a beaver advocate show up and tell us
that beaver's That public sentiment was with beaver's.
Speaker 11 (10:45):
Beaver's have just as much right to exist and to
live here in their natural habitat as we do.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Public sentiment is with the beaver.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Public centiment was with the beavers. Any is there going
to be an alligator advocate that shows up and says
that alligators have the same rights to be here in
their habitat in Langen Lake as do people. Now, I
don't know if public sentiment was the gators. Maybe it is,
You know, there isn't there is no tourist attraction called
(11:16):
beaver Alley along the Gulf coast. Now there's a gator.
Isn't that what they called over there in Daphne, the
gator Alley where tourists stop and walk out into the
heat trying to see if they can look at a gator.
I don't know where is there going to be an
alligator advocate and you know, beaver's public sentiment with the beavers.
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Beavers are have rights. But when they're removed, they are
they are euthanized, they are killed. But the gator is
going to get to uh go to a bigger It's
gonna it's gonna get an upgrade. It leaves Langham Park
and now it's going to be on the Delta and
has all of that full life ahead of it. Anyway,
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these are the things you wonder when you watch government
at work. You just wonder these things. Well, let's see,
there's there's more from today's Mobile City Council to get to.
But people are now calling in, I'm sure with wisdom
to share. Two five one four seven nine two seventy
two three. The telephone number that's two five to one,
(12:22):
four seven nine two seventy two three.
Speaker 12 (12:25):
Hello color, Hey, Uncle Henry, how you doing, Snake trapper?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Snake trepper? What has been going on with you?
Speaker 13 (12:32):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (12:32):
Augle Henry just coming off vacation, man from Las Vegas.
Had a blast out there, Uncle Henry. But man, what
I call tell you about Uncle Henry? Them re locating
that gator to the mobile Delta. It's probably one of
the last things they should do with that gator for
two reasons. One, the mobile Delta is already overrun with
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the alligators. Has too many out there now right, it's
because they've been protecting them for the last fifty years.
And uh two uh for one, that gater that size,
over Henry, it needs to be eaten. Now. I'll come
out there and get that gator free of charge. If
they will let me have the gator. Uh. I would
(13:14):
paddle out there and hook him and then put a
bullet in the top of his head. Over Henry. Uh
that that's that gator is too big to uh to
to relocate.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
You know, that would be wouldn't it be wonderful for
you to go get that gator and then have some
type of gator harvest party for the listeners of the
Uncle Henry Show where maybe we could taste gator and
and learn about the the different utilizations of gators. Wouldn't
that be wonderful.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Over Henry.
Speaker 12 (13:42):
If you had a big enough smoker, you could smoke
that thing in ling them part and and but you know,
just anybody that want to come out and sample it,
because it would be plenty d A lot of people
think you just eat the alligator tail, but man, that
whole thing is edible. Uh. Some of the best meat
is up around the neck and the jaws of an alligator. Okay, yes,
sir man, me and doctor Brown would go out there
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in a little canoe or a kayak and hook him
and pull him upside you know, up well you can
get a shot on, just like Troy Landry does you know.
I've gator hundred before, hadn't done it a lot, but
I mean there's a way to do it. But you
definitely wouldn't want to relocate that, okaymer for one, that
would kill the smaller gators in their very territorial Yeah,
(14:25):
it'll try to kill any gat smaller than it. But yeah,
man over here also too. In my trip out in
Las Vegas, Uh, the kids wanted us to go to
what's called the Stratosphere, which is one of the I
think it's the third largest standing free standing structure in
the country. Yeah, it's It's about twelve hundred feet high
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and it's a restaurant up at the top of it,
and it kind of spins while you're setting up in it.
But man over, Henry, you can take me out of preacher,
but you can't take the preacher out of me. For one,
it was a it was a dress code there. I
was never on the suit one one one time in
my life, and that was the day I got married,
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and that's been a long time ago. And uh, you know,
it was very expensive over Henry. For six people. We
dropped right at a thousand bucks in that place.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (15:17):
And when we sat down, you know, you had a
little drink that come with the meal, Uncle Henry. And
like I said it, man, I just ain't used to fencing.
I said, that just ain't me. Uh. But the waiter
come over and with a bottle of wine. And we
had a wine glass sitting there about side of a
fish bowl, and uh he just basically just tilted the
bottle in there and just put it wasn't much at
all over Hendrey. And I didn't know. I just looked
(15:40):
at him, you know, and told him, hey, man, if
you low on wine, I'll just have a beer. And
it kind of embarrassed the family over Henry. I raised
my kids never h you know, don't don't do anything
that would embarrass the family. But you know, I embarrassed
the family over Henry. But it was definitely not intentional.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Well, you embarrassed the family, but put it in perspective
and embarrassed them in a city that is known as
Sin City, one of the most sinful places on the planet.
So I mean, if you're going to embarrass somebody, embarrass
them there.
Speaker 12 (16:11):
Oh man, we had a blast out there, ok, Henry.
We kind of glad to get back home where I
could rest.
Speaker 13 (16:16):
Man.
Speaker 12 (16:17):
We did a lot of stuff out there. We kayaked
down the Colorado River, went to the Hoover Dawn. Man,
just blast. I would encourage everybody. You can go out
there and have a good time, and you don't have
to gamble. It's just so much to do out there.
Went to Game five of the Golden Knights hockey game. Unfortunately,
we had to catch a plane that night and the
game went into overtime, so we had to leave. Didn't
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get to see the end of the game. We knew
it'd be there long enough for the game, but when
it went in overtime on the way back to the airport,
we found out that the Golden Knights I did lose
Game five to get kicked out of the NHL playoffs.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Oh okay, but man, I.
Speaker 12 (16:56):
Posted some pictures on Facebook on co Henry, we like
I said, we had a blast, but yeah, I'd love
to go capture that gator for him. Uncle here and
even now put it on a rot history and run
ride through it and or smoking right out there and
invite the public to come out and enjoy it. But
I would just encourage him against relocating Sat.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Trevor, thank you. That was an outstanding call to the
Uncle Henry show.
Speaker 12 (17:17):
Yes, sir buddy, and you take care.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
You too, Thank you for that. You know this, it'd
be nice. You know, there's a mayoral form going on
tonight at dauphin Way United Methodist Church. That'd be a
good question for all the candidates for mayor. Would you
support roasting the Langen Park gator on a spit at
Langen Park for the benefit of the citizenry. That helped
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me figure out who to vote for. Uncle Henry showed,
Who's radio seven to ten WNTIM It's five thirty five.
(18:08):
I have more from the Mobile City Council meeting today
to share with you, but first I've got a caller
that's been waiting. The caller has been waiting since Snake
Trapper started talking. Hello caller, Hey help for Hendry Navcobil
Navco Bill. Thank you so much for your patience. You
are live on the radio, Nafco, Bill.
Speaker 9 (18:28):
Sure, no problem. Yeah, I was just you know, me
and Snake Driver must have had the same kind of thought,
because I said, I can find room for that gator
on my green egg. You know, we'll cook him up,
we'll have a party. And then I thought, well, I
shouldn't be greedy. If the folks that Felis fish Felix
fishcamp could cook him up and serve him to more people,
you know, in a real fancy way, that'd be.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Good too, It would be.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Anyway.
Speaker 9 (18:55):
Gosh, it's amazing how culture's changed and whatnot.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Isn't it. It is the older you get, the more
you notice it.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
By the way, oh yeah, so I'm almost at that
magical age of fifty nine and a half.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Oh okay, all right, well there's still life after that,
but you're yes, what once you go past that, you
begin to notice every day how how different things are,
how how how the culture views things completely differently than
they used to.
Speaker 9 (19:32):
Yeah, okay, well, y'all have a good day and I'll
enjoy the rest of the show.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Hey, thank you Navko Bill. I appreciate very much you
calling in with your thoughts on your green egg. Let's
see So today Mobile City Council meeting, I mentioned to
you about the Langen Park dredging. Here's a few other
things from the meeting that you might either benefit from
knowing or enjoy hearing. Now, the Mayor, Standy Simpson, announced
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that there's going to be the ground breaking for the
new arena. I know you the the citizen of Mobile
are very excited about your tax dollars going to this
brand new replacement for the Civic Center, the new arena
that's supposed to make everything just better, just everything will
be better. Here is they're going to have the groundbreaking tomorrow.
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Here is the mayor talking about the ground breaking for
the new arena.
Speaker 13 (20:31):
Tomorrow is a big day in the city Mobile that
we will have the groundbreaking for the new arena. It's
at nine am on site. If you go around venis
Lafe Lafayette Street, come from that side, then you'll be
able to see the tent will be have comments being
(20:52):
made by OBG, which is.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
The ovg's Oak View Group.
Speaker 14 (20:57):
They'll be doing the programming for the arena as well
as the now for the signer and for the Civic Center,
as well as other community projects.
Speaker 13 (21:09):
So if you stop and think about what's happened to
Mobile over the last probably thirty years. The biggest projects.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Right now, the mayor is going to list big projects
from the past, and it occurred to me he mentioned
a few that big projects that I remember vividly, the
public being against them, are not being satisfied with them.
Let's see, what does he mention that.
Speaker 13 (21:34):
Have been undertaken? Would be Government Plaza.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Government Plaza. Do you remember there were the reaction to
Government Plaza. I could not find anyone at the time
of the opening of Government Plaza that liked the way
it looked, the design I did not. I couldn't find
anybody that liked the way it looked, the design of it.
And as you may recall, it was flowed from the
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very beginning. Government Plaza was leaking before they even opened
it up to the public, and we went through years
of the taxpayer having to fix and plug all these
different leagues until I think they got to the bottom
of it a few years ago. Uh, I don't know
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when when bringing up new projects, don't bring up the
old bad projects.
Speaker 13 (22:26):
The civic center, the convention center.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Now, of course, then he mentions the convention center next.
Do you remember that one of the reasons that Mike
Dale became mayor of Mobile is that there was the
announced plan to build a convention center and the citizens
did not want to build a convention center, and Mike
dal ran against building a convention center against Arthur Outlaw
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who was in favor of building a convention center. And
Mike Dow won the election in art because he ran
on an anti convention center platform.
Speaker 13 (23:05):
And the RSA Tower now.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
RSA Tower didn't have as much opposition except from some
people at the time that were upset that there was
a lot of vacant, unleashed commercial office space in Mobile
and they didn't they didn't want the competition.
Speaker 13 (23:25):
RSA Tower was a by RSA. There was some city
involvement in that. These convention centers obviously a city project.
This building was a county project. But the new Arena
is the largest project that's been undertaken in the last
twelve years, and so a lot went into that. So
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we're really excited to have the groundbreaking bar and getting
it underway so that it can be completed for a
mighty gro in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Okay, so in the future, city officials in the future,
please never mention the convention center or government plaza or
anything like that in connection with the new arena, because
you don't want to be connected to those things. Many
people still consider a lot of them boondoggles. I'm just
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glad he didn't mention the golf quest when he was
talking about all this. So the groundbreaking tomorrow for the
new arena. The mayor also brought up the situation with
South MacGregor Avenue, which you may have forgotten that people
used to use that road because it's been closed for
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so long. Here is an update on the MacGregor Avenue,
the rebuilding of that street and also the construction of
a traffic circle at Dauphin and McGregor.
Speaker 13 (24:54):
One of the major infrastructure projects we've been working on.
This really disruptive, kind of like Zigler Boulevard being disruptive,
and it's the South McGregor Avenue project. But it's a
complete street rebuild from new lighting, traffic signals, curves, gutters,
pedestrian features, all the utilities under the street have been
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completely redone. But it's the street will by the time
we finish, will have been shut down almost two years,
so we're getting into the last phases of it. So
on May twenty eighth, the intersection at the McGregor and
Dolphin Street, there will be a roundabout that will go there,
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but May that intersection will be shut down until New
Year's Eve.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Okay, so now that'll be that'll be a big deal
for a lot of people, shutting down that intersection for
what May twenty eighth until he says New Year's Eve.
Speaker 13 (25:55):
So just please, if you drive in that area, be
planning you what your new route is going to be,
other than coming down on Dauphin Street traveling. McGregor councilor
Dave's done a magnificent job along with City Engineering Department
of outreaching to try to explain this to everybody. But
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as you know, not everybody may be paying attention. So
there'll be some congestion right at the beginning, and really
when school starts next late August, there will be a
lot of opportunities for traffic control to see how we
can perform.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Okay. I love seeing I love infrastructure. I love new infrastructure.
I like repairing old infrastructure. I like it. I like
infrastructure I do. I don't understand, though I have an
ignorance in my life on why these projects take so long.
Speaker 13 (26:54):
Now.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
I know it was a major undertaking, as he just
explained part of it, but it's still taking that many
years to complete. I would love to have do a
show where I get some roadbuilders in here just to
explain how roads are built nowadays and why they seem
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to take so long and cost so much. There's a
more show to come, Uncle Henry Show. Moving forward, I'm
going to take a time out for trafficing, weather and
words form magnificent sponsors, and then back with more Uncle
Henry's Show on News Radio seven to ten WNTM.
Speaker 15 (27:43):
Hold Down, Hold Uncle Henry's Show, News Radio seven to
ten WNTM.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
It's five point fifty news headlines coming up in ten minutes.
Before I get to the news headlines, I have a
few callers waiting to talk. Two five one four seven
nine seven two three the telephone number. Hello, collor Ule
Henry LD the Mad Trucker.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Look, uh, you know I'm.
Speaker 12 (28:22):
Retired now so I can watch you on Facebook.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Yes, yes, and you know, just looking.
Speaker 9 (28:27):
At you, Uncle Henry, you look a little heavier, you
getting heavy?
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Well, no, I'm I'm about the same as I've been
for the last couple of years.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Well, I'll tell you what it looks to me. Now,
I haven't seen you in a while, but it looks
to me like you're starting to pack on some pounds.
Speaker 13 (28:42):
I'm really wondering if.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
I'm wearing by the way, before before you uh, before
you launch whatever your your attack is on my person.
I'm I'm in a thirty four waistline.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Thirty four, Yeah, but there's it looks like you got
a muffin top hanging off the off the edge.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
You can't see my waist, you can't see my waste
on the camera.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Well, you need you? Is your new wife trying to
do what you did to your mother by making her gay?
Like six hundred pounds stuff that?
Speaker 4 (29:09):
That's all right? This is disgusting.
Speaker 9 (29:11):
Stop it.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
You know you retiring should be the beginning of a new,
wonderful life for you. But instead, now what are you
gonna do? Sit at home and double your attacks on
my family? Listeners Again, I asked you yesterday. Pray for him.
He needs it, Lord, he needs it. I know he's
got he's got a mostly good mind. Well I don't know,
I don't know what the percentage is, but there's some
(29:35):
good in there. Pray for him that the good in
his mind blossoms and he can spend his retirement year
years in service to others in some former fashion instead
of attacking people like me and my family. Now, yeah,
I'd like to lose a few pounds, but I'm in
a thirty four waist. I'm not. Yeah, I'm and my
(29:58):
wife no, she's u She's not trying to fatten me
up or anything like that. But this, you know, I
guess I'd rather you attack me than my family. So
the next time you call in, feel free to attack me.
Just leave my family out of it, all right? Two five,
one four seven nine two three The telephone number, Hello.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Color, Hello Grahanner is the Alabama.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Bush Alabama bush hog? What is on your mind?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Well, a lot of things over here. For one thing,
I wear a size thirty four to two, and my
wife thinks some safety.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
All right, Well, I guess I guess congratulations. Because you
are married, I think that is allowed for your wife
to think that. We ordinarily wouldn't say these things in
public if we had decorum, But congratulations to you.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Well, thank you. She's my number one fan. That's that's sir.
But look I want her to touch base on well,
the the grilled cheese and Wendy's burger. You just sign
me up, all right.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Now you're talking about something that the Alabama bushog is
talking about, something that you, the radio listener, has no
idea what he is talking about, because he must be
watching on Facebook. And so to let you, the radio listener,
know what he is referring to. I saw a news
item that the Wendy's in Canada they've rolled out a
(31:23):
new a new grilled cheeseburger. It's a grilled cheese cheeseburger
in Canada. That is a quarter pound beef patty and
the bun is two grilled cheese sandwiches. So you have
(31:43):
a grilled cheese sandwich on top of it, and a
grilled cheese sandwich has the bottom bun. Now, what did
you want to say about that, bushog?
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Well, I give you him that for days, Uncle Henry.
What I really wanted to call and talk to you
about is the conventions.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Now, wait a minute, you just brought up this sandwich
that I had not talked about on the radio. Now
I've explained that. What were you going to say about it?
Speaker 13 (32:09):
That?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Like you eat on a quarter bound burger like that
for days? I mean for two days at least.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Oh okay, well that makes more sense that it would
take you several days.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
I'm trying to keep you thirty four inch waist. Okay,
you know I had to pace myself. But other than that,
the Convinsion Center back in the day, Judge Lambert Mimes
and Judge Offer Outlaw, between the two really corrupted all
the concerts coming to the convention center in Mobile back
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in the day.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Now, they were not judges, no no.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
No, no no, but they did. They did some sleazy
backroom deals get some airs of money up there.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Now, I don't know that Arthur Outlaw was connected to
any of that. This would be news to me. And
I don't believe Lambert Memes was ever accused of being
connected to that. He was accused of being connected to
other things and got on trial for other things, but
I don't believe that he was ever connected to that.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Well, the thing is that when that happened, at the time,
Leonard Skinner said, we'll never come back to Mobile, and
all the other bands never would come back. We were blackballed.
You had to either go to Pensacola or Bulasi to
see a concert, and that was a rough time. Because
you had to travel instead of having them right here
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in town. The only concerts we have right now are
at the Pair Grounds, and he got a way till
the Pair opens for that.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Usually I don't well, that's not actually, there's lots and
lots of concerts at the Sanger Bush Hall. I don't know.
I don't know what to say. I mean, you were
calling these former mayors and commissioners, judges and all this.
Maybe you need to reorient yourself and try again. But
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God bless you. Thank you for calling it, says the
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Uncle Henry Show here on news Radio seventy ten WNTM.
Thank you again for listening to the Uncle Henry Show.
I appreciate it very very much. Now, in this half
hour of show, I'm gonna get to a few news items,
maybe a voicemail now, as you are probably aware, the
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City of Mobile having a municipal election in August, a
few months from now, where Mobile sit lions will elect
a new mayor and they will vote for who they
want to represent them in the Mobile City Council. And
there is a mayoral forum going on right now. So
if you are out at a bount and you'd like
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to learn about the people running for mayor, you could
direct your vehicle over to daulphin Way United Methodist Church
on Dauphin Street. That's dauphin Way United Methodist Church. They're
having a mayoral forum going on until eight o'clock tonight.
It started at six o'clock just a few minutes ago.
So seven candidates, seven mayoral candidates are there and this
(35:40):
forum being put on by Mobile Historic Districts, the Government
Street Collective and the Mobile Historical Development Commission. So if
you want to go, ask questions or just listen, that
going on until eight o'clock tonight at Dolphin United Methodist Church. Now,
public safety very hot topic in the election. Public safety.
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Even though mobilions are told consistently, we mobilions are told
consistently that crime is down, that all the stats are
pointing in the right direction. The stats are going down
on crime except for I think. The police department had
a press release today about vehicle thefts and vehicle break
(36:25):
ins are going up temporarily, they think. They said that
at least six vehicle thefts in the last week and
four vehicle burglaries. So lock your cars, lock your vehicles,
don't go to the don't go to a store and
then jump out of your vehicle and leave it running
unlocked when you go in there. Because that's act that's happened.
(36:49):
People just leave their vehicle runnings. Somebody comes along and
can't resist the opportunity. But anyway, other stats are down,
other crime stats are down, but public safety is a
hot but an issue. It reminds me very much of
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the last few years in the Sam Jones administration, where
it was very similar. We were told repeatedly by officials
that crime stats were going down. We've never had it
so good in terms of crime status, but at the
same time, public safety was an issue. I believe the
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former mayor Sam Jones called it a perception of crime.
He was claiming we didn't have a lot of crime,
but we had a perception of crime. And I think
the way he explained it once to the media was
that a lot of crime used to be concentrated in
certain areas and we had the same amount of crime
or less crime, but it had spread out more and
(37:57):
that more people were noticing it back then. I don't
know if you remember any of this, but I do
because I was forced to talk about that kind of garbage.
Well Anyway, Well, here we are once again we're being
told crime stats are down. But at the same time,
people are worried about crime. People are worried about going
(38:18):
out and about and do they need to worry in
the middle of an afternoon that they might get shot
or robbed in a grocery store parking lot. Now there
was a story this. I saw this story in land
Yap a few days ago, lamiacmobile dot Com the website.
I saw this story about a man in Midtown Mobile
(38:40):
minding his own business out in his yard and ends
up getting shot. He was just out in his yard,
mountain of his own business. I've got the story for you.
Fox ten covered it last night. Here is the story
about the man in Midtown Mobile. This neighborhood right off
of imageen Street eight.
Speaker 6 (39:01):
Raw emotion from a neighbor in Midtown Mobile after an
innocent man was shot. Last week, a.
Speaker 5 (39:08):
Stray bullet hit Matthew Delaney in his face as he
was talking on the phone in his front yard. And
tonight some neighbors are speaking up about the random gunfire
in that area.
Speaker 6 (39:17):
Our Natalie Williamson live at MPD headquarters with the late reporting. Natalie, First,
how is Delaney.
Speaker 16 (39:26):
Bulnis and Cameron. Delaney's family says he is in good spirits.
The bullet went through his face, down to his shoulder
and exited out of his back tonight. While Delane remains
in the hospital waiting on emergency surgery, Mobile police are
still searching for the person or persons responsible for the
senseless act of violence.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
Review twenty three engine twenty three gun job at twenty
seven hundred fourmans a Gold That was.
Speaker 16 (39:56):
The first emergency call made Thursday night around eight thirty
after an innocent mobile man was shot outside his home
on Foreman Circle. The victim's family has identified him as
Matthew Delaney. According to a close friend of Delaney, he
was outside his home on Foreman Circle talking to someone
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on the phone when a stray bullet hit him in
the face. His family says the bullet went through his face,
down his shoulder and exited out of his back tonight.
While Delaney remains in the hospital, his close friend, Bradley
Thompson says being on the phone may have saved his life.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
Matthew had so much a drilline going, it just showed
a ton of courage When a time grabbed his keys,
got in the car. And then our other friend went
and met him, put him in his car, and you
know came God bar good friend too that you know,
came to the rescue and he saved his life.
Speaker 16 (40:52):
A neighbor that didn't want to go on camera tells
me in the past two weeks, nearly a dozen shots
have been fired in the area.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
Now, I'm sorry to pause the story, but again, when
stuff like this is going on, standing up in front
of the public and ten on us the crime stats
are down. It may may be completely true, may be factual.
You ain't helping anything standing up and ten on us, Hey,
stants are down. You heard it. You're hearing these people
(41:22):
say that they're here. They're hearing gunshots in their neighborhood
all the time, and this poor guy lucky to be alive.
Speaker 16 (41:29):
She also told me she found shell casings right here
on this road. That was last Monday, and a few
days later a bullet hit Matthew Delaney in the face.
Another neighbor also tells me SHOT's have been fired in
this area four different times in just the past month.
Speaker 4 (41:46):
The first weekend it was at one end of the park,
shooting down to the length of the park. And then
the next night it was at the other end, shooting
down back towards the other end.
Speaker 6 (41:54):
He says.
Speaker 16 (41:55):
Since the gunfire, he's seen posts on social media threatening
people in this area. Now he and other residents are
begging for more police, presidents, cameras, and street lights so
they can capture the shooters.
Speaker 4 (42:09):
Oh, and I'm sorry for interrupting again. This park. I've
driven past this park several times living in Midtown myself
and I and I noticed I haven't seen a lot
of people using it, And now maybe I know why.
I don't even know what to say. I'm terrified.
Speaker 16 (42:31):
The neighbor says. Some of the gunshots happened in broad
daylight while a school bus was in the area. That's
for Delaney. He's got a long road to recovery. His
family's created a GoFundMe and we have that link on
our website Live at MPD headquarters. Natalie Williamson, Foxten News.
Speaker 4 (42:48):
Well, I don't know this is Is this the kind
of thing that shows up in crime stats? Again? It
doesn't help getting up and telling all of us, hey smile,
the crime stats are down. It doesn't help when this
kind of stuff happens all right back with more show.
After the break, it says the Uncle Henry Show on
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news Radio seventy WNTM, we have new suidlines coming your
way in ten minutes before we get to the new
said lines. In the last segment of the show, disturbing
story out of Mobile, it was a crime story. I
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was pointing out that mobilions these days certainly have crime
on their mind, a perception of crime, even though we're
being told about all how all the crime stats are down.
It may let me want to hear something reassuring, So
I hope you'll indulge me just a moment. I just
like to live Whenever I want to be reassured, I
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like to listen to Reagan. If you don't mind just
a little bit of Ronald Reagan, let me let me
go into my Uncle Henry's show archives for a little
Ronald Reagan on crime.
Speaker 11 (44:21):
Of all the changes in the past twenty years, none
has more threatened our sense of national well being than
the explosion of violent crime. One does not have to
be attacked to be a victim.
Speaker 4 (44:33):
Amen.
Speaker 11 (44:34):
The woman who was run to her car after shopping
at night is a victim.
Speaker 4 (44:38):
See this, This is what I was talking about this
that doesn't show up in crime stats. But when when
somebody is shot at a grocery store parking lot at
three point thirty on a Sunday afternoon, everybody that goes
to that grocery store now has this preoccupying them. It
is a form of being a victim of.
Speaker 11 (44:58):
Crime, draping their door with locks and chains, or victims,
as is the tired, decent cleaning woman who can't ride
a subway home without being afraid. We do not seek
to violate the rights of de defendants, but shouldn't we
feel more compassion for the victims of crime than for
those who commit crime. For the first time in twenty years,
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the crime index has fallen two years in a row.
Speaker 4 (45:37):
But we must do more.
Speaker 11 (45:39):
I urge the House to follow the Senate and enact
proposals permitting use of all reliable evidence that police officers
acquire in good faith. These proposals would also reform the
habeas corpus laws and allow, in keeping with the will
of the overwhelming majority of Americans, the use of the
death penalty where necessary.
Speaker 4 (46:06):
Now and now, yes, I need a little bit more,
if you don't mind just a little bit more. Reagan
on the topic of guns, because this horrible story out
of Midtown where the main has been severely injured by
being shot just minding his own business in his front
yard and suddenly ends up shot from who knows who
(46:30):
on the topic of guns.
Speaker 17 (46:32):
But I believe we share the same goal a strong
America carrying the banner of freedom and secure from threats
to her domestic tranquility, economic well being, and national security.
No group does more to promote gun safety and respect
for the laws of this land. And the NRA and
(46:53):
I thank you. Still we both heard the charge that's
supporting gun owners' rights in Courage is a violent shoot
them up society. But just a minute, don't they understand
that most violent crimes are not committed by decent, law
abiding citizens. They're committed by career criminals. Guns don't make criminals.
(47:17):
Hardcore criminals use guns and locking them up, the hardcore
criminals up and throwing away the keys. The best gun
control law we could ever have. Yeah, a little bit more, please,
But there's one thing we do not want. We will
never disarm any American who seeks to protect his fit
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or her family from fear and harm. You don't have
to interject something I hadn't planned to say here, but
having mentioned being the governor of California during a time
when they were talking gun control there in our state,
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I received a letter, a most unusual letter from a
convicted burglar serving time in San Quentin prison, and he
wrote and told me that he just thought, from his
vantage point where he was, he'd like to tell me
how happy it would make all of them if we
would adopt gun control. And then he explained the inside
(48:23):
of his profession. He said, we can case a place home,
we can watch and learn the habits of the people
that live there when they're in and out, and all
of that. But he said, the one thing that always
sticks in our mind that we can never answer is
is that one of those homes where the fella has
a gun in a drawer by the bed. And he said,
that's the one that scares us most of all. So
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he said, there'd be a lot of smiles in this
place if you would adopt gun control. Oh, I.
Speaker 4 (48:55):
All right, yes, Look, I just need a little bit.
It's every now and again, I'm going to need a
bit of Reagan. It's reassuring. It's like comfort food, maybe
to you it's maybe you eat macaroni and cheese or
mashed potatoes and gravy. I like to have a little
Reagan every now and again. All right, out of time
for this Hilf hour of Uncle Henry's Show. Appreciate very
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very much you listening to the Uncle Henry Show. If
you want to listen back to previous episodes, you know
they're found as podcasts. Look for The Uncle Henry Show
on the iHeartRadio app. It's a free app just updated
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(49:38):
pre set for The Uncle Henry Show that the latest
episodes will pop up when you open the app. Now,
as they say in Sarahland, have a good one, and
as they say in Theodore, take it easy. And as
they say in at least one convenience store in Midtown,
(49:59):
keep it easy.
Speaker 2 (50:01):
All write later,
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